Improvement in combined bread-boards and dough-trays



f a; ,S%eeZTA, BENNINGTON FULTON.

Improvement in combined Bread Board and Dough Tray.

Patnted Oct; 17, 187.

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BENNNGTON FULTON, OF PULASKI, IOWA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1l9,926, dated October 17, 1871.

To all whom 't may concrn:

Be it known that I, BENNINGTON FULTON, of Pulaski, in the County of Davis and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bread-Board and Dou gh-Tray Combin ed and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawin g and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention consists in combining in one piece of household furniture a bread-board and dough-tray provided with a bread-raisng chamber, the whole being constructed, arranged, and combined as hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe more fully its construction and the operation.

In the accompanying drawing which forms part of my specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View of ny improvement in bread-board and dough-tray combined, representing it closed up. Fig. 2 is a vertical and longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3, Sheet B, represents the lids when in position for working the dough.

Arepresents the dough-tray, in which thebatch of dough is mixed. B is the lid of the doughtray. G is the table upon which the dough is worked and divided into suitable parcels for leaves, which are placed in pans and set in the raising-chanber D, constructed of sheet-metal, (tin by preference,) and provided with a waterchamber, e, which is filled with water atf. Under this water-chamber is placed a lanp for heating the water in the ehamber e, and thereby impart the desired temperature to the chamber D for raising the bread placed in it. g are shelves for the pans; these shelves may be arranged to suit the taste and judgment of the maker or user. H represents a lid for closing up the whole, as shown in Fig. l, and may be used as a table for the bread-pans, when it is in the position shown in Fig. 3.

The advantage of a bread-board and dougltray combined, as hereinbefore described, will be very apparet to every good housewife.

` What I claim as of my invention is A bread-board and dough-tray, provided with a raising-chamber, constructed, arranged, and combined as hereinbefore described.

BENNINGTON FULTON. 

